Invited Speakers/Sessions (check back for updates)

Keynote: Steve Fienberg, Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Mixed-Membership Models for Disability, Text, and Network Analysis

Presidential Address: Bill Shannon, Divisions of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics, Washington University of St Louis School of Medicine


Invited Sessions:

Graphs, Risks, and Clusters: The Work of Bernie Harris
A memorial session celebrating the life and work of Bernard Harris (1926-2011)

David Banks, Dept of Statistical Science, Duke University
Adversarial Risk Analysis
Mel Janowitz, DIMACS, Rutgers
Continuity! To be or not to be! Is that even a question?
Stan Sclove, Dept of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Topic Models for New Media and Special Applications
Organized by: Elizabeth Hohman, Naval Surface Warfare Center

Carlotta Domeniconi, Computer Science, George Mason University
Jonathan Chang, Princeton/Facebook
Elizabeth Hohman, Naval Surface Warfare Center

Combining Classification Trees and Regression Models
Organized by: Herbie Lee, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz

Bobby Gramacy, Econometrics & Statistics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Dynamic Trees for Classification
Herbie Lee, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz
Constrained Optimization
Yuning He, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz
Emulation of a Flight Controller Simulator

Classification Applications in Relational Data
Organized by: Andrew Thomas, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Andrew Thomas, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Tracy Sweet, Statistics, Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research, Carnegie Mellon University

Classification in Education
Organized by: Elizabeth Ayers, UC Berkeley Education

Elizabeth Ayers, School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Tracy Sweet, Statistics, Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research, Carnegie Mellon University

Classification Applications in Chemical Forensics
Organized by: David Friedenberg, Battelle Memorial Institute

David Friedenberg, Battelle
Jared Schuetter, Battelle
Jennifer Wightman, Battelle

Classification Society Disseration Award Session
Organized by: Samantha B. Prins, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, James Madison University

Frank Busing, Leiden University, The Netherlands
WINNER: Advances in Multidimensional Scaling
Hongxia Yang
Nonparametric Bayes Models for High-Dimensional and Sparse Data
Jorge Tendeiro
Some Mathematical Results on Three-Way Component Analysis
David Casado
Classification Techniques for Time Series and Functional Data

Additional Speakers:

Dave Dubin, School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Data Theory and Scientific Data Management
Abby Flynt, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Clustering Longitudinal Trajectories in the Presence of Informative Monotone Missingness
Benjamin Shih, Dept of CS/Human Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
Ahmed Albatineh, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Florida International University
Effects of Some Design Factors on the Shape of Similarity Indices in Cluster Analysis